Wait For It

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Lin awoke the next day to the sound of his wife throwing up in the bathroom again. He'd hoped it would have been a 24 hour thing, but this was about the 4th day in the row. He was really feeling badly for her. Lin swung his legs over the side of the bed and walked to the bathroom. As his wife wretched, he pulled her hair back and held it, then rubbed her back in support. Once she was finally done, he planted a kiss on the center of her back. Vanessa flushed the toilet, then immediately went to the sink to rinse out her mouth.

"I think you should go to the doctor today," Lin told her as he turned on the shower. "This has been going on too long."

"What can they do?" She said. "I just have to wait it out."

"Baby, please just go," he begged her as he stripped off his shirt. Vanessa sighed and reluctantly agreed. She might have a window at some point in the day. Lin took the lead with getting the kids ready and agreed to drop the boys off at daycare. Sebastian was four now, so he went a little farther down the street to preschool. This morning, Sebastian refused to take off his Iron Man mask. He decided it wasn't worth the battle; he would let the teachers deal with it.

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At school, Lexi was trying to figure out a way to bring up Hunter to Amber. How was she going to tell her best friend that she was willingly transferring to another school? She would be crushed.

"So anyway," Amber went on at lunch time, "He Snapchatted me back with a picture of his dog's butt. It was weird."

Lexi chuckled as she pushed around her trail mix. "Hey, listen," she began nervously. "I wanted to talk to you about something..."

Of course, the bell rang, and all the kids started to make a dash for the doors.

"Tell me after school," Amber said. "The park?"

"Okay," she agreed, and then spent the rest of the day dreading it.

After school, they met on the front steps and started walking over to the park. The chit chatted on the way like normal, then put on all their protective gear. They started rolling around the ramps and rails, laughing at each other when the other messed up.

"So what did you want to talk to me about?" Amber asked as they met at the top of a ramp.

"Uhh...so apparently my test scores are insane," she began. "And you know Hunter? Where my sister goes?"

"Yeah," Amber said, adjusting her helmet clip.

"Well...they're making me transfer there," she spat out, not looking at her friend.

"What the what?!" Amber said, exasperated.

"They're making me," she lied. "I told them I didn't want to, but they keep saying I need to be challenged more."

Amber opened her mouth to speak, then closed it again.

"I'm sorry," she said quietly, biting her lip.

"No big deal," Amber tried to brush it off, but she was obviously upset. "We can still hang out after school, right?"

"Of course," Lexi assured her. That was all that was said about the subject until they both had to go home.

"When do you switch?" Amber asked her.

"Um, I actually don't know," she admitted. Hopefully it wouldn't be an immediate thing. She needed some time to prepare.

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When Lexi got home from school, Lin was making stir fry in the kitchen.

"Hey, sweetie," he greeted Lexi as she came in.